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Ok, I wanted to make sure I was playing by the rules of this language game. So in Tractatus, Witt explains (pretty commonsensically) that true proposi...

Fine and dandy, but now we are mixing up our language games. Are we going to explain early Witty by way of later Witty or are we going to take early W...

You seem to ignore my arguments.

So refer to Kant's transcendentalism? What is a philosophy that has no account of itself and starts in the middle and then says, "This doesn't matter"...

Someone else has finally come full circle to my original critique. It’s this that is missing and makes it (at least on the face if it as far as I can ...

int main() { std::cout << "Hello World!"; return 0; }

Indeed, you may be right, unfortunately. The fact that very significant impositions are taken for granted as fair and just, possibly shows this mental...

I think politics can be consequential and doesn't necessarily reduce down to ethics proper. One can ponder ethics in governance, but that is different...

And that is the major difference in moral reasoning here. I have said previously that unnecessary suffering is that which you impose on another person...

Yes it is. Certainly the larger argument might be something like, "We are not obligated to create happy people (if that person isn't there to be depri...

So I was thinking about this earlier.. People tend to think if you widen the playing field of choices you give a person, that this somehow justifies i...

Antinatalism would not be true to its own morals.. I guess technically, it is agnostic to being based on consequentialism, but that is why I would not...

Arguments for doing harm to others because joy is an outcome, do not negate the harm done to others. Eating an animal is harmful to the animal and for...

No that’s not how our language works. Unlike Frodo baggins who can never exist, a child can if certain actions are taken. That future possibility is b...

A person who would suffer if you did X.

Excellent point and also kind of speaks to my point to @"180 Proof". Another point that I’ve been trying to make myself over and over. I call this ide...

Why not? Why wouldn’t you be able to not create an occurrence in the future that you know could happen to someone. Do you not believe in future states...

You are not worth discussing anything. You make poor arguments and have nothing of substance. You are a belligerent asshole that just poisons the well...

So it looks like you are not making the distinction that I put forward earlier. See here again:

Indeed that is just your opinion. Show me the error of my ways.. I honestly don't care if it's coherence theory or not.. There was a "resemblance" the...

Yeah I know your position, and yeah lets not make this a repetition. You can at least teach your adherent over there a lesson in how to debate without...

You have not connected "no actual person" with "no moral concern". There will be an actual person. Yet, you never address that important point.

Did W know what he meant :lol: Maybe he built himself a nice private language :rofl:

I think he moves from a correspondence to a coherence view in Investigations. However, all of these terms are like counting angels on a pin for me. I'...

I don't see what you don't see. A person does not exist at X time for Y suffering. But they will exist at X1 time for Y suffering. You know that Y suf...

If you know at time X present, a person does not suffer Y, and at time X1 in the future, a person will suffer Y, I do not see why ethical concerns don...

Already refuted that idea. There is a difference between something never being able to happen, and something that can definitely happen. Sociobiology ...

You think this is a justification for doing for unnecessarily putting people in harms way? And you can reference by what I mean by unnecessary.. but I...

:yawn:

No proof of a phenomenon that has never empirically been verified except in ancient sources (or in claims from the Enquirer), seems a bit dubious to h...

By the way, I'm not trying to devalue what gives you hope or what not.. If these stories are important truths that help you, so be it.. Believe what y...

Why are ancient Israelite authors/editors immune from making shit up like any other authors of ancient times? The stories themselves might be compelli...

How do you know that you don't just like the authors of Exodus (various others and editors that compiled it from various sources presumably), and not ...

That's the problem with a lot of what posters are doing here. Let's analyze this a bit by discussing three things that humans can do: 1) Needing water...

Added more to that last post.

Yep, my mistake.. I meant something more like "True propositions are limited to either all the atomic facts (actual states of affairs) of the world" T...

Ah maybe a sock puppet then

You are delusional. I don’t care about circles. You’re not on a mission. You’re not a white knight. Lay off the drugs (but do take your meds). Switch ...

Are you like his Shadow in Jungian terms? You’re the same person Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation? :lol:. Yep maybe you are his Mr. Hyde, or just a g...

In other words, you can go around the merry-go-round with states of affairs, objects, and facts and propositions describing them, but I think there is...

I think this is best illustrated if you give an example. What would a non-early Wittgenstein thinker make an error of and how would Wittgenstein respo...

It seems like his "theory" (as described here) is a kind of truism rather than a truth. It makes sense that propositions can be true or false based on...

If you only knew how much this sentence characterizes the state of modern humanity.

Because you continue to debate in this manner, I'm done. You've proven you're not worth the time to debate and this kind of hostility is arguing out o...

This is why Hillel’s formulation of the Golden Rule (who was a Pharisaic scholar who lived a little before Jesus and probably an influence as far as o...

Category error.. the universe of course can never have intent so a moot point. I also never said the parents had such intent. YOU however, made the po...

Um, that doesn't mean that you then put them in a situation of harm so that they can be in a situation whereby the offense can take place :roll:. I do...

The origin of procreation has never been the problem. It is the procreation that is the problem, so this is just odd non-sequitor. Huh? You have so ma...

I'll give you this, I lost the thread of your original post on asexual reproduction. All I responded to at that point was this: I had to look back to ...

Dude, you should know basic definitions before you make a fool of yourself: "Procreation- the production of offspring; reproduction". Reproduction can...